Botanical Garden - Development Integrated with Transport Stations

Today Moscow actively tackles the transportation problems caused by insufficient transport infrastructure development, including the lack of car parking and convenient transfers from one to another transportation mode. To overcome these problems, as well as significantly increase the value of surrounding areas, should be created transport hubs (TH). BOTANICAL GARDEN – is one of the most important TH Moscow projects of the recent time, which represents the new generation of transitoriented development to integrate into a coherent whole the Moscow Ring Railway, metro, buses and taxis with the residential districts, retail facilities, offices and apart-hotel.

Moscow metro is one of the oldest one (after Tokyo) and the busiest subway in the world. It service is used by an average of 6.9 million passengers per day. At the same time, because of the large amount of individual vehicles and underdeveloped transport infrastructure, Moscow is known as the city of huge traffic congestions. As one of the largest cities in the world, Moscow cannot impress the optimal conditions for business and life, including due to low transport mobility and air pollution.

PROGRAM OF THE CREATION OF TRANSPORTATION HUBS IN MOSCOW
To stimulate and optimize the use of public transport the city government considered the possibility in the process of construction of new transport lines and stations to form hubs convenient for transfer on various transportation modes. Now in Moscow is planned to build 273 transport hubs (TH) near existing and new underground stations, Moscow Ring Railway and railway stations.

In some TH, along the areas belonging to railway companies is provided connection of other adjacent land plots into a complex reorganization of the territory. It may be said that this is a great opportunity, based on the Asian examples, to radically transform the automobile depending city transport infrastructure through urban development focusing on arrangement around transport stations high-density developments, satisfying a huge demand for property development. Obviously, one of the goals of the program is to diversify the incomes of the railway industry.

BOTANICAL GARDEN PROJECT AS AN EXAMPLE OF AN INTEGRATED TH
“Botanical Garden” station on Kaluzhsko-Rigizhskaya Line is located about 10 km north of the Kremlin. On the south side of the station is situated the largest botanical garden in Europe, founded in 1945, and from the west side of the station flows the Yauza River. This peaceful residential neighborhood is located far from the bustle of the city, in the beautiful surroundings of greenery and water. The planned site occupies 8 hectares on the north side of the “Botanical Garden” station (now there is located a factory) and 16 hectares on the south side.

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